Police in each division high school urged
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The Winnipeg Police Service wants to station an officer in every high school in the Winnipeg School Division.
A report to trustees expected at this evening’s meeting says police want to expand the current nine student resource officers in WSD schools to one in each high school.
It was not immediately clear how many officers that would be because WSD has high school students in 15 schools. That would include the Winnipeg Adult Education Centre and Argyle Alternative High School, as well as College Churchill — in the same building as Churchill High School — and about three dozen students at Niji Mahkwa School adjacent to Children of the Earth High School.
The report also says police want schools across the city to have a uniform practice for lockdowns.
While the school officers are fully empowered to enforce the law, they’ve been placed in high schools to develop relationships and trust with the students and the community and to be available should students want to come to them for help.
The school officers are also responsible for spending time in each high school’s feeder network of neighbourhood junior high and elementary schools. A police spokesperson could not be reached Friday.
The schools have provided space for student resource officers, and the province has been a key player in financial support for officers’ salaries and other costs. The Pallister government had no immediate response Friday on the police request to expand the program.
Seven Oaks superintendent Brian O’Leary said police have not proposed placing officers in each of his division’s three high schools.
nick.martin@freepress.mb.ca